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FBI and Microsoft take down $500m-theft botnet Citadel

Submitted by gma on Mon, 06/10/2013 - 05:17

(BBCnews) Citadel spread by being included with pirated versions of Window. The FBI and Microsoft have broken up a huge network of hijacked home computers responsible for stealing more than $500m (£323m) from bank accounts.

The Citadel network had remotely installed a keylogging program on about five million machines to steal data.

About 1,000 of the 1,400 or so networks that made up the Citadel botnet are believed to have been shut down.